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4.2 Career Development Leading to Specialization

The dynamic nature of the field means the chemical engineering graduate in an industry can expect to be offered
significant continuing profesional development (CPD) opportunities in order to develop new knowledge. The nature
of the role of a chemical engineer leads to the creation of versatile, multiskilled professionals capable of handling a
wide range of technical, environmental and commercial challenges. Chemical engineering graduates may begin their
careers on a graduate training scheme, which may last two years. Following this, they may move on to manage their
own projects, or work as assistant chemical engineers. On completion of a training program, the trained engineer
may progress from primarily technical roles, through the promotion structure, to highly regarded and well-paid
senior technical appointments. The engineer growing in experience and passing through these work challenges may
also ultimately rise to senior management positions as director of functions or higher.
Initially, however, graduates will gain experience of a range of projects, either within the same company or, after
gaining chartership (that is, engineering regulatory bodies of their respective countries) and/or by changing
companies. After training in the early years, there are various posible career routes:
• To continue working on projects where they can rise to Project managers or directors;
• To develop expertise in a new technique or process in demand within the industry and move into research and
development;
• To move into specialist roles, such as safety, quality and risk management, project engineering or environmental
management;
• To move into commercial areas, such as technical sales, procurement, intellectual property, logistics and aftersales
management, marketing, supply chain management, recruitment, finance and IT;
• To opt for leadership roles, with opportunities to influence strategy and growth. Senior roles can include asset
team leadership, business planning and analysis, non-operated joint ventures (NOJV), asset management, operations
supervising and management, environmental, safety, fire, and health, and project management.
Professional qualifications and continuous training are an integral part of career development, and there may be
opportunities to move into other areas of engineering industry to gain new skills and experience.
4.3.2 Chemical and Process Engineers (Design Engineers)
Job description
Chemical and Process engineers are responsible for converting materials through unit processes (such as
combination, separation, reaction, nitration, oxidation, polymerization and so on) into useful and valuable products.
They design and scale up processes from laboratory, including food and drink, fuel, artificial fibers, pharmaceuticals,
chemicals, plastics, toiletries, energy, and clean water. On the existing processes of converting raw materials into to
improve the efficiency and economics of these processes. Chemical and process engineers work in a multivariate
environment: cracking crude oil into useful products and by-products; working on oil sands projects that separate
bitumen from sand (shale oil) and upgrade it to synthetic crude oil; applying technical know-how to improve
production and water treatment at steamassisted gravity drainage (SAGD) plants; finding and developing new ways
to remove moisture, contaminants, hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide from natural gas or reduce corrosion on
equipment and pipelines, are just a few examples of the scope of the work of chemical and process engineers.
Process engineers may work in small, midsize and large businesses. Responsibilities involve designing equipment,
understanding the reactions taking place, installing and commissioning control systems, starting, running and
upgrading the processes; and also performing process optimization studies and developing new designs.
Environmental protection and health and safety aspects are also significant concerns for this engineer in performing
his work.
In a typical industry, a chemical process engineer will be saddled with the task of establishing fundamental heat and
material balances, developing working process flow sheets, and transforming flow sheets into piping and
instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs). The process engineer also takes care of sizing the various process equipment and
materials of construction. The various equipment include pressure vessels, reactors, distillation columns, heat
exchangers, crystallizers, piping, and incinerators. This job involves close interactions with experts in chemistry,
materials, mechanical, civil, electrical and instrumentation engineering, and so on.
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